Container fob batteries or the like



May 29, 1934.

' P. F. BOEYE CONTAINER FOR BATTERIES OR THE LIKE Original Filed Aug. 27, 1930 UNITED STATES PATEN T OFFICE CONTAINER FOR BATTERIES OR THE Paul'F. Boeye, St. Paul, Minn, assig'nor to Waldorf Paper Products Company, St. Paul, Minn., a corporation of Minnesota Original No. 1,882,565, dated October 11,1932,

Serial No. 478,152, August 27, 1930. Application for reissue April 14, 1933, Serial No. 666,219-

8 Claims.

' It is my object to provide an unusually inexpensive container for dry batteries of the type used in radio receiving sets to efiiciently protect such batteries during shipping and handling. More particularly, it is my object to provide a snugly fitting container and at the same time to reduce the cost of a container of this type by forming it-entirely from rectangular strips of suitable sheet material, such as corrugated board. and by eliminating separate. fastening devices.

. The invention also includes certain other novel features of construction which will be more fully pointed out 'in the following specification and claims. I v

Referring to the drawing, which illustrates the best form of my device at present known to me, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved container; Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the same taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1 and showing a battery in-place therein; Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2- and Fig. 4 is an end view of the main blank showing the interlocking flanges in partially closed position.

For the purpose of illustrating the application of my invention I have shown in the drawing an ordinary dry battery 9 such as used for B-batteries with radios. This battery includes terminals 14 which extend upwardly from the top of the battery and are usually quite delicate and subject to injury. My present invention, though particularly adapted for protecting such batteries, may also be used for similar articles having a projecting part to be protected.

My improved container is preferably constructed from corrugated sheet material formed in two rectangular pieces without slots or reentrant angles. The several panels, flaps and flanges are formed by merely creasing the blanks transversely along parallel lines. The main blank, best shown in Fig.4, has a front panel 5, a bottom panel 6, a back panel 'I and. a top panel 8 adapted to cover four sides of the battery 9. Integral with the top panel 8 is a reentrant-flange 10, adapted to be folded between flanges 11 and 12 formed on the free end of the front panel 5, to form a pad 13, Figs. 1 and 2, for protecting the terminals 14 of the battery.

The second or outer rectangular blank is creased transversely to form end panels 15 adapted to cover the ends of the battery and a top panel 16 adapted to extend on theexterior of the panel 8. The ends of the outer blank are creased transversely to form locking flaps 17 adapted to flt snugly between the bottom of the battery 9 and bottom panel 8 of the main blank.

The inner extremities of these flaps 17 are reduced in thickness by crushing the corrugations and securing them in compressed form by adhesive. Thus wedge-shaped extremities 18 are formed on the flaps to facilitate forcible insertion of the same between the battery and bottom panel 6.

The method of procedure to pack the batteries in the container will how be readily understood. The battery is first placed in the main blank which is closed by merely folding the flange 10 between the flanges 11 and 12. Finally the outer blank is applied and the wedge-shaped extremities 18 of the fiaps 1'7 are forcibly inserted. between the bottom of the battery and bottom panel 6. The front and back panels of the main blank are of sucha length that when the flaps 17 are inserted they are securely gripped and this securely holds the main blank-upon the battery. The interlocking flanges 10, 11 and 12 prevent removal of the front and back sides 5 and 7.

It is common practice to ship a number of the, individual batteries in a larger container and when this is done the batteries in my improved,

individual containers fitting in the larger container require no separate fastening, such as the usual tape. Where single batteries are to be shipped, suitable adhesive tape may be applied to the bottom corners to prevent outward movement of the panels 15 from the battery. If protection for the ends of the battery is not desired ornecessary, the outer blank may be omitted and a short piece of adhesive tape may be applied to join the pad 13 to the front panel 5, as indicated at 19 in Fig. 1.

It isito be understood that in the foregoing specification and in the appended claims the terms "t p", r r tt n, t, or back, as applied/to the sides orpanels, are employed for convenience of reference only and in no way to limit the invention, as it is evident that any side of the battery or container may be considered as the top, bottom, front, end, back or rear. 0

Having described my invention, what I claimas new anddesire to protect by Letters Patent is:

1. In a'container for a rectangular body, such as a battery, having on one side aprojection to be protected, a single, long and relativelynarrow, rectangular blank folded to cover four sides of said body and interlocking flanges on the free ends of said blank respectively, positioned adjacent to said projection to form a space within the container for said projection and to retain said blank in contact with the sides of said body, the

' flange on one end of said blank being oonflned in overlapping relation to a pair of flanges on the opposite end of the blank and having its 'free edge abutting against the fold line between said pair of flanges.

2. In a container for a rectangular body, such as a battery, having at its top a projection to be protected, a main blank folded to form front, rear, bottom and top panels to cover the corresponding sides of said body and an integral pad to space the top panel from the top of the body, said pad having a tendency to spring away from the top of said body and an outer blank folded to form end panels to cover the ends of said body and to overlap said top panel and flaps on the free ends of said end panels insertable between said bottom panel and body to conflne said pad and end panels in engagement with the top and ends respectively of said body.

3. The container specifled in claim 2 in which said pad is formed by interlocking, overlappingflanges of substantially equal superficial area on the free endsof said cover and front'panels respectively arranged to space said top P nel from the top of said body.

4. The container specified in claim 2 in which said pad comprises a reentrant flange formed on the free edge of said top panel and a pair of flanges formed on the free edge of said front panel'to receive said first mentioned flange in overlapping relation between them, said flanges being formed by parallel creases and the flange on said top panel engaging the crease between the flanges on said front panel.

5. In a container for a rectangular'body such as a battery, having on one side a projection to be protected, a single long narrow rectangular sheet of paper board of uniform thickness folded over to cover four sides of said body and formed with a top and a side panel, and a flange formed on each end of said blank and issuing inwardly from the adjoining edges of said top and side panel, said flanges lying parallel with said top panel and being disposed within the container to form in conjunction with one another a pad for protecting said projection, said flanges being shorter than the top toprovide a space adjacent the pad for the reception of the projection.

Ii. In a container for a rectangular body such as a battery, having on one side a projection to be protected, a single long narrow rectangular sheet of paper board of uniform thickness folded over to cover four sides of said body and formed with a top and a side panel, and a flange formed on each end of said blank and issuing inwardly from the adjoining edges of said top and side panel, and a flange formed on the inner edge of one of said first named flanges, all of said flanges lying parallel with said top panel and being disposed within the container to form in conjunction with one another a pad for protecting said projection, said flanges being shorter than the top to provide a space adjacent the pad for the reception of the projection.

"I. In a container for a rectangular body such as a battery having on one side a projection to be protected, a single long and a relatively narrow rectangular blank folded to-cover four sides of said body, juxtaposed flanges on the free ends of the blank forming a pad for engagement with the top of the battery, said flanges being of a length less than the length of the top of the container to leave a space between the pad and one wall of the container for the reception of the projection of the battery.

8. In a container for a rectangular body such as a battery having on one side a projection to be protected, a single long and relatively narrow rectangular blank folded to cover four sides of said body, juxtaposed flanges on one end of the blank forming a pad for engagement with the top of the battery, saidflanges of a length less than the length of the top of the container to leave a space between the pad and one wall of the container for the reception of the projection on the battery.

PAUL F. BOEYE. 

